World-renowned nursery lost in Bonsall fire

This past week, the Lilac fire in north San Diego County touched many people, many homes, animals, land and nurseries on 4,100 acres of land.

The Rainforest Flora nursery, located on West Lilac road in Bonsall, was heavily damaged by this fast moving and staggering wild fire. My heart also mourns the horses that perished in Lilac fire and the heroic work of all the folks down at the San Luis Rey Downs Training Center

The nursery is the world’s largest growers of tillandsia or air plants and other exotic novelties in the bromeliad family and ships throughout the states and abroad to collectors...